Capula Investment Management, the secretive and high-paying hedge fund set up by former J.P. Morgan trader Yan Huo, has been hiring.

Over the last 12 months, headcount has increased in London by nearly 6% – most of these are senior traders making the move across from investment banking.

Even so, Capula has a mere 57 employees registered with the Financial Conduct Authority in London. Finding patterns among such small numbers is hard, but there’s one type of recruit that seems to be favoured – equity derivative traders with Asian exposure.

El Khayati and Vayn are the latest equity derivatives traders to join Capula following the appointment of Cyril Levy-Marchal in April last year. Levy-Marchal was the former global head of equity derivatives trading at J.P. Morgan – and later head of equities trading for Asia. He joined Capula’s expanding HK office.

If you make it to the senior ranks at Capula, the pay can be unusually generous – even in hedge fund terms. Last year, its partners received an average payment of £2.2m, whereas rank and file employees got an average of $425.6k.